What appeared before them was a circular opening. The moment they stepped through it, they were met with brilliant light. But Timaria's face quickly turned deathly pale. Timaria was indeed strong, but that strength was only strong in the eyes of ordinary people.
Timaria had spent her entire life in the human world. She had only brushed up against things like ferocious magical beasts, but the sight before her had already gone beyond the bounds of any normal world.
This was...
Li murmured, "The underworld?"
Before them stretched an incomparably vast expanse. Huge patches of vegetation grew across it, so lush that they inspired fear. They were enormous as well, at least four or five times larger than similar plants Li had seen before. A grown adult could easily have their tracks concealed while walking through them.
Yet these plants were not green, but gray. At a glance, Li could clearly sense the aura of death constantly radiating from them. And yet they were alive, brimming with the essence of life. They seemed to be constantly breathing, as if this place and the normal world had been reversed.
In the normal world, living things gave off the aura of life. But here, living things emitted a deathly aura that made one tremble! Li was completely dumbfounded. What kind of place was this? Was it really a structure built by the Behemoth Dynasty? What had the Behemoth Dynasty done all those years ago?
If this place had truly been constructed by the Behemoth Dynasty, then how could that dynasty have simply vanished into the river of history?
This was an independent underground world. Though the plants before them looked incredibly bizarre, one thing was certain: everything here grew in wild abundance. It was as though they had been placed under some